{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-15-2602","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2602","heading":"Legislative intent","body":"It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide a pilot program affording public school districts and public charter schools the opportunity to develop teacher compensation plans tailored to the public school district's or public charter school's needs to accomplish the following:\n\n(1) Provide incentives that will encourage teachers to improve their knowledge and instructional skills in order to improve student learning;\n\n(2) Recruit and retain highly qualified teachers;\n\n(3) Encourage highly qualified teachers to undertake challenging assignments;\n\n(4) Support teachers' roles in improving students' educational achievements; and\n\n(5) Inform policymakers regarding the potential of a restructured teacher professional pay system to improve student achievement across the state.","path":["AR Code","Title 6","Chapter 15","Subchapter 26"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"adfcbe0a531a97427887c635c8940ca08a3adf448578e4987ddfaf372d037cc6","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-15-2601","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-15-2603","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}